New Classes
I submitted a class for the Spring term titled Choral Masterworks. This class will have videos and discussion of great works of choral music spanning the period...
Category: Class Notes
America’s War – Class Ten
Phase Four of the war began with the invasion of Iraq in 2003 on the pretext that Saddam was in possession of so-called Weapons of Mass Destruction which he int...
America’s War – Class Five
Islam and It’s Discontents This class is an introductory sketch of the history, outlook, and internal dissensions within the Muslim world from its founding to t...
America’s War – Class Four
The American Empire in the 20th Century: 1901-50 This class begins with a description of Theodore Rosevelt’s “Great White Fleet” that was sent on a world tour t...
America’s War – Bibliography
The War for the GME Bibliography references the books and periodical articles I read to research and prepare this course. Many of these are directly cited as qu...
America’s War – Class One
Pirates and Colonists This class introduces the question we wish to explore over the next ten weeks: how did the United States come to be entrapped in a seeming...
America’s War – Class Two
The American Empire in the 19th Century: Part 1 The Conventional Narrative of American History holds that, compared with European powers that seem to have been ...
America’s War – Class Three
The American Empire in the 19th Century: Part 2 This class begins with a discussion of the Yellow Press, sensationalistic tabloid newspapers that were not above...
New Class–America’s War for the Greater Middle East
Last October 7 was the eighteenth anniversary of the beginning of the American War in Afghanistan. The fact that this date passed without much notice shows that...
Mozart Operas – Classes 1 -3
When Mozart first arrived in Vienna it was at a time when the Emperor was anxious to promote German culture. Consequently, his first two Viennese operas (The Ab...